Like DC, Virginia and Maryland have a huge number of maids, painters, and taxi drivers born outside of the US. But Virginia also has a large number of computer programmers who weren’t born here, and in Maryland, that’s the case for a lot of medical scientists. These graphs show which jobs in Virginia and Maryland have the most immigrants. Keep reading…

On Thursday, immigrants across the country went on strike to demonstrate their worth in the United States. In DC, immigrants make up 26 percent of the total workforce, and for some occupations the percentage is much higher. Keep reading…

According to the Trump White House, murder is up 50% in DC. That was true for 2015, but the District’s murder rate has been more or less flat since 2010, and it’s way down from where it was in the 90s and early 2000s. Keep reading…

The average size of new apartments is shrinking in major cities all around the country. In DC alone, new apartments built between 2010 and 2016 are on average 9% smaller than those built in prior years. It’s a trend that is both caused by and that helps to relieve high rent prices in the District.
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It’s DC beer week, an annual event that celebrates local brewers, who add to the region’s character and economy. There are ten brewers in DC plus one that’s just across the border in Silver Spring. To see them all, I created what I’m calling the Washington Beer Trail.
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Ambulances in DC generally take longer to respond to neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River, and the river itself seems to be part of the cause. This map, which I made using data obtained from DC FEMS under the Freedom of Information Act, shows areas of the city where the proportion of all critical 911 calls where an ambulance took more than 10 minutes to arrive at the scene from the time… Keep reading…